• Newly formed program within a well-known organisation
• Sydney CBD office, 2-3 days WFH
• Creative and evolving role, working with an experienced leader

The Organisation – Wesley Mission

Wesley Mission is a prominent, multifaceted Christian organisation dedicated to making a tangible impact in the community. With over 200 services ranging from aged care to homeless support, child and family care, counselling, employment, training, education, and health services, they are committed to their vision: “Doing all the good we can because every life matters”.

This well-known community service provider offers a structured and engaging onboarding process, their culture is nurturing and people first and each team member commits to being accountable for their work whilst working collaboratively towards common goals. This is reflected in the long employee tenure across the organisation.

The Role - Philanthropy Manager

Working closely with an empowering and experienced, Head of Philanthropy, this role has huge potential to develop and deliver an impressive philanthropy program.

With a wide range of services and programs in place to support the community, there are many opportunities to find value alignments with major donors, HNWI, Trusts & Foundations and Corporate Partners. With backing and investment from the executive team you will have time and space to creatively evolve the program.

The initial focus for the Philanthropy Manager will be to work closely with the wider fundraising team to identify prospective donors and start to build a major donor pipeline. You will work with the Head of Philanthropy to establish a communication and stewardship supporter journey that increases engagement and awareness of the organisation’s great work, getting to know your prospective donors over the phone, via email and face to face, working to soliciting major gifts over time.

The other area of focus will be Trusts and Foundations. You will work closely with a fundraising consultant to utilise a supplier grants portal, recognising opportunities to share Wesley’s Mission’s services with trust and foundations managers across the country. You’ll have a love for writing engaging proposals to secure funding.

The future opportunities are wide-open in this role and will include corporate partnership engagement, work place giving and corporate volunteering. The newly formed Philanthropy team has internal support from a large marketing and communications team for their program related needs.

This is a great opportunity to put your philanthropy relationship and writing skills to the test and join the organisation at a pivotal growth point as they develop an internal culture of philanthropy with their leaders and drive forward an internal Fundraising Committee.

Your Skills & Attributes

Essential:

• Demonstrated experience in a philanthropy relationship, supporter management, or fundraising focused business development role
• Demonstrated success in the full major donor cycle; research, prospecting, solicitation and reporting
• High EQ coupled with confidence to convert a prospect to a confirmed donor
• Exceptional interpersonal and listening skills
• Experience in writing compelling fundraising proposals
• An innovative, collaborative approach, comfortable working with all levels of business and community
• Commitment to staying at the forefront of philanthropic trends and innovations
• Proficient in utilising a CRM system to securely & accurately manage donor information
• Commitment to understanding policies, rules & legislations that govern fundraising

Benefits for you

• Hybrid working policy – min. 2 day per week in the office
• Commitment to your wellbeing
• Employee Assistance Program
• Discounted health, travel & home loan insurance
• Access to salary packaging up to $15,900 yearly

How to Apply

This is going to be a hands-on growth focussed role. We are open to hearing from candidates wanting to move in to their first fundraising management role or more experienced managers who want a new challenge. If you’re looking for your next career move, then apply now!

Send an up-to-date resume through the ‘APPLY NOW’ option, applications will be reviewed regularly.

If you have specific questions about the role or wish to request the job description & salary package information you can contact:

• Leish Thomasian at [email protected] using the subject line: Philanthropy Manager - Wesley Mission enquiry via EthicalJobs / 02 5629 7216 or,
• Rebecca Robinson at [email protected] using the subject line: Philanthropy Manager - Wesley Mission enquiry via EthicalJobs / 02 5629 7213.

Beaumont People have been contracted by Wesley Mission to recruit for this role, please direct all enquiries to us. We offer a non-profit service specialising in delivering unparalleled permanent and temporary recruitment and consultancy solutions to the Not-for-profit sector on a not-for-profit basis.